Contract Insights

The health of the contract lifecycle relies upon efficient contract task management.  Manual methods for completing contract tasks relating to pre-award and post-award contract lifecycle management can be error-prone, inefficient, and tedious - potentially decreasing your organization's ROI.  Read this blog to learn how your organization can embrace streamlined and future-minded contract task management with AI-powered contract management software.

2021 is rapidly approaching and, with it, innovations and enhancements to contract management automation.  To that end, here is a list of user-friendly, future-minded, and industry-advancing contract management software features, processes, and best practices that organizations can empower themselves with to successfully and confidently navigate the evolving landscape of contract management through 2021 and beyond.

Vendor risk management can be daunting for risk management professionals and financial contract management teams.  In many cases, the process of sourcing a suitable vendor or partner is hard enough on its own.  However, a risk or vendor management professional must also understand a business's requirements and solicit vendors, contractors, and other partners to engage in business with to ensure they are qualified.  Add to the mix the financial responsibility of ensuring compliance under OFAC, or the Office of Foreign Assets Control, from the United States Treasury Department.  Clearly, the duties of reviewing the vendor onboarding process, agreement terms, and clauses can be a time-consuming set of tasks.  Leading contract management software, however, can streamline these processes with seamless OFAC search integration.  Read this blog by CobbleStone's Founder and Executive VP, Mark Nastasi, to learn how.

Manual healthcare contract management processes can increase cost and liability, leak and decrease revenue, and bring about negative patient and personnel experiences.  Outdated strategies can prevent a seamless contract lifecycle, compliance, the best use of time and resources, unified and secured documents, efficiently and accurately entered data, and the management of contracts of varying value and complexity.  Luckily, future-minded contract lifecycle management software can help. Here’s how.

General Counsel and paralegals face growing contract volume and contract complexity.  The lack of an efficient legal contract management process can render obstacles that legal departments encounter nearly impossible to overcome.  As such, here's how to utilize legal contract management software for a shortened legal contract lifecycle.

The COVID-19 pandemic has left supply chains all over the world in a state of disarray.  Now more than ever, antiquated supply chain contract management procedures can prevent efficiency and growth, decrease ROI, and damage organizational reputation in the face of unforeseen and vulnerable circumstances.  Don’t let outdated supply chain management methods leave your organization exposed to the potentially detrimental effects of uncontrollable events; establish an ironclad supply chain contract management process for supply chain success.

U.S. Federal Contractors - no matter which government agency or department they are contractually involved with - can face several challenges throughout the contract lifecycle.  With many different tasks to perform, there is a lot of room for errors or missteps that may lead to contract lifecycle bottlenecks, compliance challenges, regulatory violations, wasted time, and lost revenue.  Luckily, government contract management software can help.  Here’s how.

Nursing home networks face a unique set of challenges around healthcare contract management.  Since they are subject to strict laws and regulations, nursing homes need to be vigilant when establishing and maintaining contracts - as to avoid litigation costs, witness depositions, and the frantic retrieval of mismanaged contracts.  With disorganized or manual processes, nursing homes increase the risk of lawsuits, misplaced documents, data entry errors, contract lifecycle bottlenecks, damaged reputation, wasted time, and revenue loss.  Luckily, contract management software can help nursing home networks establish a seamless contract lifecycle, remain compliant, reduce wasted time, unify and secure documents, efficiently and accurately enter data, and manage contracts with varying complexity and volume.  Here’s how.